Carfax

Challenge

Carfax receives information from more than 100,000 data sources and in order to be the leading source of vehicle history information for buyers and sellers of used cars, they need a comprehensive, stable, secure vehicle history database available. CARFAX needed a unified platform to automate configuration management and compliance across thousands of nodes. Doing so enables them to ensure maximum uptime for their consumers, both dealer and individual, accelerating growth of their customers’ businesses.

Solution

Chef Infra allows CARFAX to standardize build and configuration processes. Chef InSpec enables quick confirmation of compliant nodes and protection from vulnerabilities. Chef Automate’s notification engine integrates with ServiceNow, giving teams insight into how Chef cookbooks are performing over time. When a cookbook fails, ServiceNow creates an incident for the responsible team to address, ensuring a linear, scalable workflow.

Impact

By standardizing and centralizing configuration and compliance, CARFAX was able to:

• Use Chef Infra to reduce the time to complete a new server build task from days to minutes, and bring engineering and developers closer together, accelerating iteration and innovation
• Reduce time and effort required to audit server level information from days to seconds with Chef InSpec
• Gain visibility into useful metrics from the Chef Automate integration with ServiceNow, reducing time spent filtering alerts and giving CARFAX compliance validation assurance